Legacie breaks ground on £200m Liverpool resi
Work is underway to regenerate the vacant plot off Leeds Street to deliver 656 apartments across four towers in the city’s Pumpfields district.
Legacie Contracts broke ground on Monday to deliver the Liverpool city centre scheme on behalf of its sister company Legacie Towers – both subsidiaries of Legacie Group.
The Falconer Chester Hall-designed development will feature a mix of one- to three-bedroom luxury apartments, as well as a garden spa with an infrared sauna, a swimming pool, an ice bath, and an oxygen chamber.
Known as The Gateway, the project will also provide two gyms and two resident lounges, as well as a cinema room, convenience store, and a coffee shop.
It is estimated that the construction process will create more than 250 local jobs and 25 apprenticeships.
Legacie revealed its plans for the development in August, having picked up the stalled site in April.
Liverpool City Council approved Vinco Group’s plans to for a slightly larger scheme to deliver 664 apartments on the 1.6-acre plot in 2019. However, the company is currently being liquidated.
John Morley, chief executive of Legacie, said: “The site has lay vacant for far too long, and I am pleased that we have stepped forward with a scheme that will be a catalyst for further regeneration, provide an economic boost, and deliver something the city can be proud of.”
International sales agent, RWinvest, has partnered with Legacie to promote the scheme.
Michael Gledhill, director at RWinvest, said: “The Gateway will be a stunning addition to Liverpool’s buoyant housing offer.
“With world-class facilities on-site, it will form a key part of the emerging Northern Quarter and help attract further investment as we continue to see huge demand for luxury living in the city.”
Labour Party shadow minister Bill Esterson, who joined the developer at the breaking ground ceremony on Monday, added: “Building new homes and creating jobs and training opportunities are the foundations for a stronger, more prosperous economy.
“Legacie and RWinvest is a powerful partnership and working at pace to deliver quality accommodation not just in Liverpool but across the UK.”
This is not the first time that Legacie and RWInvest have worked together. The pair have also teamed up to promote the £25m One Park Lane development, which is on track for a December 2024 completion.
RWInvest also led the international sales drive on the recently completed Element – The Quarter scheme.
To learn more about the development, search for application number 17F/0874 on Liverpool City Council’s planning portal.
Needs to be the beginning of intensive regeneration of the Scotland Rd and Leeds Street corridors.
By Anonymous
Been a long time coming but at last a quality looking development for this strategically important location. Hints too that the plot next door has been purchased, think it’s called Metalworks, and that could progress soon.
By Anonymous
Looks a quality project
By George
Be interesting to see how they get past planning with only one staircase in each block..
By Anon
Over £300k a unit average in L’pool. Wow. :chuckle:
By Stato
Looks like Lego gone wrong.
By DH
More development of brown field sites like this is a good thing- great Merseyside could double it population if more schemes like this (and much taller) get built
By Stuart wood
@Anon they’re already past planning, it’s on site.
By Anonymous
Looks great and not all square blocks
By Anonymous
Really like this scheme, great to see it now on site
By L17
development will feature a mix of one- to three-bedroom luxury apartments, as well as a garden spa with an infrared sauna, a swimming pool, an ice bath, and an oxygen chamber.
Just what the city needed. The fact that one of the parties involved is called RWInvest tells you all you need to know about how accommodation in Liverpool is now simply a commodity for property developers, estate agents and landlords to grasp as much money as they possibly can. Have an avaricious Christmas one and all.
By Dave Downey
Nice to see much needed affordable housing going up …..not. Aimed at investors
By Anonymous
@Anon 9.13am, affordable housing should be the job of the HA’s and other social housing providers , in the meantime do you want to stop all other developers while we wait for the social sector provide,anyway in Liverpool there is lots of reasonably priced housing.
As for criticising investors if they didn’t invest no housing would be built at all and therefore nothing for people to rent or buy.
By Anonymous